Old-fashioned diet is good for pigs
A very old-fashioned diet has its advantages, implies this study:
“A Paleolithic diet confers higher insulin sensitivity, lower C-reactive protein and lower blood pressure than a cereal-based diet in domestic pigs,” Tommy Jönsson, et al., Nutrition and Metabolism, vol. 3, November 2006, p. 39 ff. (doi: 10.1186/1743-7075-3-39.) The authors, at Lund University, Sweden, and elsewhere, report:
“A Paleolithic diet has been suggested to be more in concordance with human evolutionary legacy than a cereal based diet…. We examined glucose tolerance, post-challenge insulin response, plasma C-reactive protein and blood pressure after 15 months on Paleolithic diet in comparison with a cereal based swine feed.”
(Thanks to investigator Jesse Eppers for bringing this to our attention.)